Program hangs on startup

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com wrote:

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> I am not able to really see what is going on, process explorer says
> cygwin1!aclcheck
> 
> Otherwise, I have seen it hang in some function that I cannot remember
> exactly ascii convert or something and other vista kernel functions.
> 
> Basically, I would like to know is this :
> 
> 1. how can I determine where the application is spending its time, It
> is doing something, but it seems to be in a buch of kernel calls.
> 2. where is my systrace and oprofile for cygwin that will show me the
> kernel calls?
> 3. is there a way to do a trace using gdb on cygwin? I would like to
> basically to a "nexti" a million times to see what instructions are
> being executed.

Have you tried 'strace'?  Perhaps you want to build a debug version of
Cygwin if you think the problem requires looking more at the internals.

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